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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Tero Mononen <tero@ooe.fi>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unable to a new branch with VC commit
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 10:50:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s6sg0q5.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <babe5664-6bba-c1d1-51c3-8a0d080dbd7a@ooe.fi> (Tero Mononen's message of "Thu, 11 Mar 2021 22:46:54 +0200")

>>>>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 22:46:54 +0200, Tero Mononen <tero@ooe.fi> said:

    Tero> Dear Emacs people,
    Tero> Most likely I'm doing something wrong but I don't know what.

    Tero> I haven't managed to create a new Mercurial branch in
    Tero> Emacs. According to manual [1] it should happen with C-u C-x
    Tero> v v. It does request "New revision or backend". I give name
    Tero> of the new branch, and then commit changes. Surprisingly,
    Tero> commit ends up to the active branch instead of the new
    Tero> one. I.e., it completely ignores my input.

    Tero> I tested the same procedure also with Git and the result was
    Tero> also the same.

Neither git nor Mercurial fall under the "On centralized version
control systems" clause of the 'Creating New Branches'
documentation. You should be able to create a branch on both git and
Mercurial by doing 'C-u C-x v s', which runs 'vc-create-tag'.

Robert
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-12  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-11 20:46 Unable to a new branch with VC commit Tero Mononen
2021-03-12  9:50 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2021-03-12 10:15   ` Tero Mononen
2021-03-12 10:46     ` Robert Pluim
2021-03-12 12:39   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-12 14:21     ` Robert Pluim
2021-03-12 15:14       ` Robert Pluim

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